And when it was much past noon. Aurora and Felix were having a late lunch at a café inside the Grand Park of the King's Capital. Wellbums in the mountains (or so-so) fall is fast. At the end of the summer, at the edge of the terrace seating spreads in the early, soothing sun, relaxed and in a cool breeze.
Cafes are a form of restaurant that has been popular among the people of Wangdu for some time. The history of cafes in the Wellbum kingdom has been around for more than a hundred years, but it was recognized by the upper classes that it has been a 'slightly disturbed' restaurant for a long time because it serves alcohol at night.
However, as the hedges of the people and nobility became lower year after year and more stores served quality goods, even for ordinary people, the cafe spread at once and gained citizenship. They also have stores like salons, where all the famous writers and painters gather, and nobles and royalty sometimes show up with patience. Nevertheless, I still have the impression from your wife and the lady of the warrant that 'shops that women will never be allowed in alone'.
However, the cafe in the Grand Park is a somewhat high-lying creation for the common people, with only terrace seats with 'seating costs', and is therefore commonly used for young aristocratic dates these days. If my lover were to take me, it would seem to be a bit of a status among the girls.
It's all hearsay that it seems, because the information Felix has asked Luna Mare is based on. Aurora, the boxed lady of the indoors who loves embroidery, naturally, Felix was also a fashionable and often missed person. Even the lady can go to a cafe, he can't possibly know that.
... Yes, Felix did his best. Though I sent him an invitation letter to go out with me, I had no idea where Aurora would be happy to take him, etc., and when he was on his way, he asked his sister too much advice to come up with. After doing her sayingly divination, being introduced to a single man in the Kingsguard by a friend of Luna Mare, and sacrificing a large amount of private time, he asked his sister to introduce him to a tailor's craftsman unit, pick up a recommended dining spot, and finally pick out an outfit. It was not until he got to know Aurora, such as when he relied on his own sister, much as his sister would wield him.
Across from Felix immersed in emotion, Aurora watched with curious eyes the warm sandwich and dark eyed coffee that came out. On the beautifully covered black surface, the scary, but somewhere soggy, green eyes are clearly reflected.
"... Um, can I have it first?
"Oh."
"Okay, excuse me. - I'll take it."
Aurora, with her eyes challenging something neatly and her mouth on the cup as she had decided to, looked at her face.
"Ugh, wow, bitter......"
"Have you ever had coffee?
"This is my first time..."
In tears, Aurora looked up at Felix.
"It was a discipline novel I read about when, and even the protagonist traveler seemed delicious, drinking 'brown drinks', so I wanted to try it once... but I didn't think it was so bitter"
"You read the Chronicle?
Nodding gently at Felix, Aurora turns away the cup at hand, just a little.
"In an old mountain village, there's a scene where I praise a beautiful embroidered bridesmaid costume, but that's where it's great. My brother found it at the bookstore.... but what do we do, even if we ask for something else, the cafe is where we serve coffee, right?
"Then you can trade it for this."
Felix pushed Aurora over the beverage in front of her, not yet mouthed, and took up her cup. It was a glass that appeared in front of Aurora, ridden with fluffy and stuffed white cream. Apparently, it smelled faintly sweet when I tried to keep my nose closer, although it was the same as the cream on the cake or something.
"It's called Einschpener. Coffee, like tea, soothes the taste if milk is added. This is half cream with sugar, so I'm sure you can drink it."
"A one-headed carriage (Einschpener)?"
"I wonder why you say that"
Felix tilts his neck, but Aurora can't tell it's the first time she's heard it.
Nevertheless, it was something I had given way to because of it, Aurora once again braved herself to put her mouth on the glass. The sweetness of the soft cream that flutters in and comes later, the bitterness of the coffee. But it blends into a bittersweet drink with a sneaky taste.
"Oh, you can drink it...... it's still so bitter though.... Is Master Felix okay?
"In the Knights, it goes out better than tea. At first, his face was distorted by his bitterness."
Does Felix, with the same thin look, but with only a few far-sighted eyes, recall that time?
"Did you think I might not be able to drink?
"... but it's a beautiful day"
(I'm very happy to take care of you, but it's too obvious, Dear Felix...)
The escort and the samurai behind the two also have signs of a bitter smile. Cohon, and Felix coughed unnaturally, "by the way," and now it's time to change the subject.
"Did you enjoy Maison Baradeur's workshop?
"Yeah, that's already it!
Unexpectedly the whole body gained strength, and Aurora glanced forward and held her fist.
At least for the past few years, it has been perhaps the most heartening day since I was born. I can't stop my mind boiling and my smile spilling just remembering.
"So wonderful, works, materials, yarns, cloths and people... it was great already!
"It was very popular with artisans."
"Oh, that was kind of embarrassing..."
Aurora dyes her cheeks.
It was all Maison Baradeur's embroidery worker unit waiting for Aurora, who had been taken to the workshop reception room because she wanted to meet him. They were also involved in the embroidery of Aurora's nightclub dress, calling Aurora "the princess of black rose embroidery" and so on to tell the story of Aurora's embroidery, which was the original idea of the drawing, and to express their enthusiastic thoughts on the embroidery of the rose on the chest, which Aurora added at the end.
"There's also a proposal to hint at that 3D rose embroidery and use an embroidered cloth to make a costume and make it a part of a dress or headdress."
and when it continued, Aurora seemed to faint less thankfully. Embroidery, which was only my hobby, was recognized by others - by professional craftsmen as well. Though I was admired by Ms Prui that day and I was very pleased with that, the words of those who actually work to stab her were much heavier for Aurora, equal to a shrine as well.
"Thank you so much for bringing me here"
Respond so that you can bite, and swallow the Einschpener small and cocky.
"Good for you, then"
Felix also said so, exhaling a satisfying deep breath of relief, narrowing his eyes and smudging.
"You did seem to enjoy it from the bottom of your heart. You really like embroidery."
"... I'm sorry to leave Master Felix alone"
"I don't mind because I also enjoyed watching you looking at the embroidery. Whatever we talked about, it was up in the sky, and it was hilarious."
"So, were you obsessed? I'm unconscious and embarrassed..."
If you say so, for less than those three hours when I was looking at every dossier, he was in the same room as Aurora, which should also have always been directly next to her or directly behind her, but I have no memory at all.
Felix shook his head at Aurora, who was slightly blue.
"If I'm given a lot of old fortune-telling material too, I'll leave it around and read it."
"But you invited me around the corner"
I can't believe I left that benefactor alone. Looking at Aurora, who softly dropped her shoulder, Felix panicked and waved as well as her neck.
"Don't worry about it. It's natural when it comes to something you like. I guess the beauty of your embroidery technique comes from that concentration and curiosity, and it must have stopped in His Highness's eyes. No matter how precious the magic, I don't think awkward embroidery would have bothered you"
That may be, Aurora slightly raised her feelings. In the first place, if it was an awkward embroidery, I wouldn't have offered it as a gift.
"... If you were as skilled as I was at a young age, I wouldn't have given you such a piece first, so the magic wouldn't have touched your eyes either. … My first embroidery was terrible"
"What's terrible?
"... try roses and such all of a sudden for what you thought. I still can't get rid of it, but I don't know... it just looked like there was a green handle on the red scrap."
Combined with admonition and memories, he still serves in the drawer of the mansion's room in the territory. No matter how young you say you were, you've grown so much from that skill that you want to praise yourself.
"That's the other way around. I feel like I want to see it."
"Well, say messing with me"
"It would have been so adorable if your young lady was embroidering so hard."
"What do you think? She was my daughter. Horse-riding, swordsmanship, wanting to do it with my brother."
You imagined it, Felix flaunted his face. To the grin of the irregular beauty, Aurora couldn't wait any longer and leaned down. - I really feel dazzled.
(My brother and father, they're sparkling, so I thought I was more used to beauty than people, so why is it so dazzling?... you mean spirit-class beauties are different?
"Speaking of which, Your Highness, what happened to the embroidery you requested?
"Half is over. There has been a lot of time since Master Felix left. But I can't get the yarn I really want to use in the summer. I was on a faster schedule to come back here than to pick it up, so I'm just stopping my hand once. I ordered the yarn the day after it came back, so it should arrive soon and be able to resume. If I can concentrate properly, I'm thinking that the completion might be about the middle of next month.... I need to work hard."
"Sometimes you can't concentrate? I'm always obsessed with stabbing you."
Aurora trembles her lips at the words of Felix with her eyes rounded.
"Yikes...... are you always looking so closely?!
"Because it's so much fun to watch you. When I woke up feeling a little sleepy and nagging, I was surprised that you weren't moving at all but your hands."
"That's when you don't speak up!
I have a sense that I'm terrible when I'm concentrating and stabbing. As a girl before her debut, it was not uncommon in the mansion of the territory to reply neither to the voice of her brother nor to the voice of her father, and to be pulled out of the room at the hands of her mother. I've even had servants scream at me if it's a ghost, not realizing it's getting too focused and dark.
When Felix broke up with Aurora as she licked the cream on her chicken and coffee, she warmed up a warm, dark cup of coffee.
"Well, forget the joke"
"A joke?!
"Let's ask Your Highness if it's possible to see it around the end of next month. But......"
Aurora blinks at Felix, who suddenly glances at her face. Felix caught his breath peeking into the water of the remaining coffee, keeping his long legs reassembled and his face intact. Blue wind blows more than that.
"Your Highness, it's not very pleasant to put steps in place to meet you and other men."
"Yes?"
"I don't have much experience with these things, but is this what jealousy is all about..."
"Yeah, yeah?
Blood went up Aurora's cheek. I have trouble being told to do that with my face, and I say patty to chill my cheeks. But Felix, an honest quality, let go of Todome's words without consciousness.
"I feel frustrated that I'm planning to go out to show Your Highness your embroidery, or that something springs up in my chest."
Puffing, watching Aurora's mouth open or close, ha, and another breath. Felix snapped somehow when he removed his right glove, tapping the edge of the coffee cup three times with a long fingertip, a neat nail. A high, clear, good porcelain-like sound sounds, the dark brown water surface once brings a light of pale blue-purple.
That's just for a moment. Felix hissed that willow brow after a quick peek at the water that restored its original quietness.
"Look, the divination results aren't good either. … let's stop watching."
"Yeah, no, no, no, you can't! It involves Mr. Felix's credibility! What's happening now?
"That's a simple thing about waterboard fortune. Divine ahead from the shadows on the water. The ancient occupier said he could even see the statue of the future."
"By the way, what are the results now?
"Dark clouds."
"... the outlook is bleak, does that mean?
"Something bad could happen, to that extent. Against me, so you don't care. - It's a lot to come off, I hope you don't look like that."
In front of Aurora clouding her expression, Felix drank the rest of the coffee. And reach out to Sandwich.
"But I'm worried. … I think I've spoken to you a long time ago, but I'm only worried about what I can do."
"That's not true. Just have him sit next to you, and he's a full help.... because my mouth seems to move somewhat decently if I'm to talk to you."
"Speaking of which, you've been talking for a long time. When I think about the first days, I'm surprised today."
Smudge, Aurora thinks so. I couldn't imagine a day when I would have so much to talk about with someone who was so lousy and only talked about my job. I didn't think Aurora herself would be able to crack this much.
Anyway, he was a maiden admirer, a knight of the frozen silver moon, and actually a tremendous beauty, and then a Marquis man. He is not a person in such a distant capacity as to be beyond his reach, but he is difficult to get close to. I was going to be fiancée in a non-obvious way and break it in a year or two.
"If you see someone you've known for a long time, you'll lose your hips."
Felix brought just a little bit of the edge of his mouth, then looked terribly serious and made his dwelling right on the chair. Aurora rounds her eyes and puts the hand released from the glass on her knees.
"... If your sight with His Highness is safe, I have something for you to ask. Will you give me some time?"
"... apart from the usual tea party?
Shot into a straight gaze, Aurora also stretches her back. And I thought it was time to announce the termination of the disguised engagement. This season is full of months left. Return to your territory in the winter. A little faster than I assumed, but the last time we were engaged for too long, when we were broke, I guess the outside world was bad.
(But if it feels like this, even if it's broken, could you be my friend...?
Though I felt like the back of my heart hurt, I decided to think it was my fault.
Aurora stretched her back and turned firmly forward. He nods shallow.
"Well, I hope not."
"Okay. We look forward to hearing from you."
To her, nodding with a strange face, Felix also fluttered and loosened his eyes.